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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

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Tech that serves to conserve the oceans while using it to replace older, more harmful means of generating energy and food seems to be one such opportunity. The open ocean also contains tremendous amounts of energy. But today, it increasingly means tapping the enormous energy represented by the ocean’s winds and waves.

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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

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And even though robotics is weathering the current slowdown in venture funding better than other tech sectors, it’s still too easy for innovative inventions to remain stuck in the lab. At Tesla, Werner led the new product introduction team and helped launch the Model S powertrain and Model X.

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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

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Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between. Sessions will include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, S2G, and the City of Atlanta.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Of course I have no crystal ball but if I look at the biggest energy in new company builders these days it seems to me some of the biggest trends are: The growth of sustainability and climate investing Investments in “Web 3.0”

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

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It’s becoming increasingly difficult for green companies to raise money for large-scale innovative projects, mainly because most investors still associate “having an impact” with high risk. This slump is a particularly unpleasant setback for entrepreneurs hoping to advance climate-focused principles and social change.

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Nth Cycle wants to revolutionize metals processing for recyclers and mine operators

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We’re looking at a lot of the untapped resources we have here in North America, because we have all of the materials we need for the energy transition, we just don’t have a way to mine them sustainably yet.”. We’re really only innovating on the chemical recycling side of things,” she said. “We’re

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Revitalizing Your Resource Partner Network

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Spring is a season of growth and new beginnings that often leads to a renewed sense of energy and motivation. These consistent conversations recently resulted in West Virginia Business Link’s successful entrepreneurship event— Bridging Innovation Week. Partners convened 11 events over a four-day period in Charleston, W.Va.